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SiriusBlackSiriusBlack Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

A photographer friend of mine came across this while out on a walk today!

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  • Mr_SpudMr_Spud Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool

    Mr_Spud

  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,291 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You are correct I believe, I'm pretty sure none of us have one of those!

    Quite the interesting look for a piano, and certainly an interesting display.


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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 17,496 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Super Cool. Are those actual coins or just pictures? Imagine some keen varieties there? Maybe even some "Accented Hair "? B)

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  • ThreeCentSilverFLThreeCentSilverFL Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Holy Cow. Nope. I have none.

  • Very cool, alot of work. looks great.

  • @Namvet69 said:
    Did I miss a Liberace estate auction? Peace Roy

    Or Prince.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,208 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool. I cant touch that one

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,819 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh heck, I got a couple of those old things.

  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭✭

    How much total face value do you think is on that piano, as well as how many varieties? Would certainly be cool to hear the back-story on that one................

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Namvet69 said:
    Did I miss a Liberace estate auction? Peace Roy

    You know, that would be something Liberace would own.

    Pete

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  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I did acquire a Steinway upright piano decades ago and learned after the fact that it was older than the one sourced from The White House that resides in The Smithsonian. Eventually it got traded in toward a Steinway midsize Grand, but the collector in me would like to have kept it.

  • jrt103jrt103 Posts: 419 ✭✭✭

    that's certainly unique

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like something that would've been in the Knott's Berry Farm saloon. Cool!
    Anyone else ever been in there? I remember that the bar's counter had coins embedded in it...that was the early 80's and I think they were Morgans...I used to work there.

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  • 1984worldcoins1984worldcoins Posts: 654 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, this is in my living room now. (nah its not)

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well now... that would be fun to check out....Looks like there would be something for all interests.... Cheers, RickO

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SiriusBlack said:
    Here’s something none of you have!

    How do you know what I have?? :o

    Great piece. For a true coin collector!

  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 7,005 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wonder what the actual coin face value is?
    Wayne

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  • IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @WAYNEAS said:
    I wonder what the actual coin face value is?
    Wayne

    Assuming both side panels are decorated with the same coins, it's over $600 face value. The total could be significantly more if the back and top of the case are also decorated with coins. :)

  • SiriusBlackSiriusBlack Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kurisu It does look like something from the Saloon though I haven't been there in years and years!!

    I thought the piano was a fun random bit of numismatic ephemera when I saw the photos! It would go great in a @ricko coin room. The Tarnished Piano!

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SiriusBlack .... Indeed it would look nice in my coin room.... I thank you... You could get it for me in time for my birthday.... :D I will take a picture with it and have it framed for you. ;) Cheers, RickO

  • Danno44Danno44 Posts: 179 ✭✭✭

    PMD...I’d give .05 on the dollar because I would taking all the risk... :)

  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,733 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @KingOfMorganDollar said:

    @Namvet69 said:
    Did I miss a Liberace estate auction? Peace Roy

    Or Prince.

    Or Mark Russell (except he's still alive, but that looks like something he'd have played).

    Sean Reynolds

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,585 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am hoping that no one is taking the OP as a challenge.

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool.

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice!

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @IkesT said:

    @WAYNEAS said:
    I wonder what the actual coin face value is?
    Wayne

    Assuming both side panels are decorated with the same coins, it's over $600 face value. The total could be significantly more if the back and top of the case are also decorated with coins. :)

    Are they gold plated?

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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kurisu said:
    Looks like something that would've been in the Knott's Berry Farm saloon. Cool!
    Anyone else ever been in there? I remember that the bar's counter had coins embedded in it...that was the early 80's and I think they were Morgans...I used to work there.

    The bar/counter at the cafe in the Wall Drug complex is covered with silver dollars which are under glass of course.

    theknowitalltroll;
  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @USSID17 said:

    @1northcoin said:

    @SiriusBlack said:
    A photographer friend of mine came across this while out on a walk today!

    I think I found the perfect home for the piano here in Virginia City, Nevada:

    Does that house have a garage?

    ...by far that’s the coolest sub-$400 paint job I have ever seen on a vehicle ;)

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @Kurisu said:
    Looks like something that would've been in the Knott's Berry Farm saloon. Cool!
    Anyone else ever been in there? I remember that the bar's counter had coins embedded in it...that was the early 80's and I think they were Morgans...I used to work there.

    The bar/counter at the cafe in the Wall Drug complex is covered with silver dollars which are under glass of course.

    Are they Morgans? I haven't been back to Knott's since the 80's when we still lived in CA.

    Coins are Neato!

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  • Bruce7789Bruce7789 Posts: 397 ✭✭✭✭

    Somewhere in my travels i encountered a bar or casino called the Silver Dollar and the Bar and tables are all covered in Silver dollars embedded in Resin. I want to say it's in Carson City or Reno, but it's been too long. May have even been in Virginia City.

  • ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    I haven't been to Knott's since the 70's. Disco New Years Eve 1978. Virginia City/Reno/Tahoe in 1986. I do remember hitting a jackpot and walking around a hotel casino in Vegas with a couple of those plastic cups full of silver dollars in the early 90's. Wish I had kept them now.

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is that piano in tone or are the coins perfectly tuned?

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kurisu said:

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @Kurisu said:
    Looks like something that would've been in the Knott's Berry Farm saloon. Cool!
    Anyone else ever been in there? I remember that the bar's counter had coins embedded in it...that was the early 80's and I think they were Morgans...I used to work there.

    The bar/counter at the cafe in the Wall Drug complex is covered with silver dollars which are under glass of course.

    Are they Morgans? I haven't been back to Knott's since the 80's when we still lived in CA.

    Mostly Morgans IIRC and I think some Peace dollars, all common dates. This is at Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota and not Knotts.

    theknowitalltroll;
  • USSID17USSID17 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 24, 2021 3:11PM

    @Onastone said:
    Is that piano in tone or are the coins perfectly tuned?

    The piano keys are tuned. Does that mean the piano coins are keys? (meaning key dates) :D

  • USSID17USSID17 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @Kurisu said:
    Looks like something that would've been in the Knott's Berry Farm saloon. Cool!
    Anyone else ever been in there? I remember that the bar's counter had coins embedded in it...that was the early 80's and I think they were Morgans...I used to work there.

    The bar/counter at the cafe in the Wall Drug complex is covered with silver dollars which are under glass of course.

    Yes, Wall Drugs South Dakota. Been there and saw those silver dollars. I have pictures here somewhere.

  • USSID17USSID17 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Found them!

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @USSID17 said:

    @Onastone said:
    Is that piano in tone or are the coins perfectly tuned?

    The piano keys are tuned. Does that mean the piano coins are keys? (meaning key dates) :D

    Brilliant!! I didn't think of that one!

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,459 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would have done a better job straping down that piano for moving!

    Gotta admit - have never seen one like it. :+1:

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